MARKETING TERM of the WEEK: Comp and Circumstance Edition

What does a marketing researcher call a body of statistical techniques concerned with the study of interrelationships among a set of variables, none of which is given the special status of a criterion variable?

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Factor analysis allows researchers to investigate concepts that are not easily measured directly by collapsing a large number of variables into a few interpretable underlying factors. READ MORE…

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